Synopsis (Patchy Segments)

Patchy organizes a house party, and all the guests come except for SpongeBob himself, who can't understand

Patrick and Mrs. Puff sitting on Spongebob's sofa.

what's written on the invitation because it was destroyed by the water.So they throw it in fire. Potty invites The Birdbrains, a band consisting of birds. Patchy attempts to remedy the music situation by performing his own (horrible) song, and Potty tells Patchy that it's time for his flute solo. Patchy starts playing, but soon realizes that he plays a fife, not a flute, and that the "flute" is actually dynamite. It explodes, leaving only his head intact. The Birdbrains then have the opportunity to play music, singing "Underwater Sun". After they finish, Patchy returns to end the show, with a barrel for a body being kissed by girl parrots.

Synopsis (SpongeBob Episode)

While shopping at the Barg 'N-Mart, SpongeBob finds a "Plan Your Own Party Kit", and decides to throw a party using the kit. Despite the kit advising to invite "only your closest friends", SpongeBob invites nearly everyone in Bikini Bottom. When all his guests arrive and start partying, SpongeBob stops them from doing what they want and forces them to follow a very elaborate and specific schedule of events that he planned. These include discussion cards and reading newspaper comics to his guests. SpongeBob accidentally locks himself out of his house because he got the wrong newspaper, allowing the guests to have fun. After continually trying to get into his house using different methods, he grabs a pickax and attempts to break in while dressed as a bunny. The police find him and place him under arrest, but when SpongeBob explains everything, they don't arrest him. However, the police attempts to make him miss the party by arresting him for not inviting them. When he gets back, he is depressed because his party failed, until Patrick comes and tells him that it was the greatest party all of them has ever been to, and that he should do the exact same thing next weekend. SpongeBob smiles gladly and becomes proud and finds Gary wearing a lamp. The episode ends as SpongeBob turns off the lamp.

Release

Reception

"Party Pooper Pants" was ranked #71 during the Best Day Ever event on November 9–10, 2006.

Trivia

Timeline

8:00: Patrick arrives.

8:22: Tom arrives.

8:37 :SpongeBob accidently locks himself out of the house.

Timecards

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Mr. Krabs is first seen talking to Patrick, later to Plankton and when the last guest arrived, he was talking to Squidward. This happened to a few other characters too.

Patchy said he invited SpongeBob to his party, when SpongeBob and Patrick threw their invitations into the fire that reveals that Patchy also invited Patrick.

The subliminal message girl's laugh from "Gary Takes a Bath" was heard at the ending to renact the female parrots' laughter.

During the marathon leading up to the premiere of this episode in 2002, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Dana Harvey made special guest appearances during ads and commercial break warnings.

If SpongeBob has a reserve key under the mat (which is shown at the near-end of the episode), he should have used it earlier, after he gets the newspaper.

According to this episode, Patrick was not in SpongeBob's kindergarten class or was just gone the day they took the photo.

Officer Nancy's last name is revealed to be O'Malley.

This episode reveals Scooter's name.

The "Peg Leg Dance" mat was first seen earlier in the episode when SpongeBob talks about the scheduled events.

The Birdbrains are lookalikes of the rock band Guns N' Roses (Slash) and punk rock band the Ramones. And their name comes from the legendary 80's punk rock band "Bad Brains".

The question, "Which came first, the oyster or the pearl?" is a pun on the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

This episode's working title was "SpongeBob's House Party". In "Tentacle Vision", at the end of the episode, the TV program is "Squidwards House Party", hosted by the "Guitar Lord". This refers the working title.

In Hebrew, this episode is called "המסיבה של בובספוג", which means "SpongeBob's Party".

The fine print for "Patchy's Dance Tips" video offer reads: "It is unlawful to blah blah blah. In the event of blah blah blah the said person blah blah blah. Will who there for blah will blah and it shall be the soul responsibility to blah blah when in the case of blah blah blah. In so there to, henceforth blah will be blah."

SpongeBob's schelduled events:

8:00-8:05: Guests arrive

8:05-8:15: Opening remarks & general discussion

8:15-8:27: Craft corner & name tag distribution

8:27-8:37: Cracker eating/tongue twister contest

8:37-8:52: Read aloud from the newspaper comics

8:52-9:03: Eat cake

9:03-9:07: Laughter

9:07-9:20: Running charades

9:20-9:38: Finger puppet theater

9:38-9:57: Charity apple bob

9:57-10:00: Electric jitterbug dance marathon (Ladies choice)

10:00-10:09: Dance your pants off

10:09-10:41: Knock-knock jokes

10:41-10:47: Squidward makes light conversation with Mr. Krabs

SpongeBob's welcome mat is not present in any scene except the one where he pulls a key from it.

SpongeBob invites 177 guests, although only 11 are actually shown at the party.

Discussion Cards:

Scooter: Which came first, the oyster or the pearl?

Lady: Discuss the philosophical nature of irony.

Plankton: Where are you from?

Patrick: Nod politely

This episode was never again aired after its initial showing for over 3 years. Starting in 2007, the episode was aired again on Nickelodeon.

This is the first episode to have 2 title cards.

Right before the cartoon starts, Patchy asks if he wants us to watch the cartoon now. The camera then goes up and down supposedly nodding, breaking the fourth wall.

This is the first episode where Sandy and Ms. Puff interact with each other, the second would be in the movie.

On the offer for the Patchy's Dance Tips Videos, the MasterCard logo can be seen.

When SpongeBob was reading his schedule, Gary's shell doesn't have the red swirl.

Potty says "That's the television audience, barnacle brain!", again breaking the fourth wall.

Minnie Mermaid said she would die if she weren't in water, and later she is seen alive outside of water.

When Patchy hits the lamp post he is facing the right, but when he's crashing a lot of houses he is facing left.

This is the fourth episode where a time card wasn't said out loud. The first was in "I was a Teenage Gary", the second was "Shanghaied", the third being "The Fry Cook Games", and the fifth will be in "Ugh".

When SpongeBob dug a hole to try to get into his house, he was stomped on by people in the party and decided not to try that plan again, when he was able to do the same maneuver after they had finished hopping.

In real life, you won't get caught by police officers if you don't invite police officers to your party.

This is the first episode where SpongeBob played dirty on Squidward by cutting his cable.

In real life, SpongeBob's schedule would not be able to travel up items vertically because of gravity. It also wouldn't be able turn at a right angle without being folded.

If Patchy blew up then he shouldn't be able to move his arms, let alone be alive.

In Bahasa Indonesia version, when Patchy ask about Rusty to Potty, he answers "Rusty died 30 years ago".

When SpongeBob said he can't read from this most of the guest puffed out his cheeks.

Running Gag: SpongeBob getting hurt attempting to get in.

Errors

At the end of the episode when Patrick closed the door, the door handle was the same color as the door but in the next scene it was a gold handle.

Irony: SpongeBob and Patrick cannot read the ink of the invitation due to the physical limitations of being underwater. So they throw it in the fire. Fire can't exist underwater due to the physical limitations of being underwater.

The cake had blue frosting, but in a later scene it had pink frosting, and in another seen it had blue frosting.

In the scene where SpongeBob reads Comics to everybody, his couch is blue and red.

Tom's eyes are different in this episode, but in a later scene they are back to normal, and in another scene they are different.

In one scene Gary's mouth did not move when he said, "Meow".

When SpongeBob arrives home after spending the night in jail, he finds that the door is still locked. Wouldn't the partygoers have to unlock the door to leave? Although Patrick could have locked it after they left since he was still in the house. In the original storyboards shown on DVD, the guests leave after SpongeBob unlocks the door.

SpongeBob remembered he has a reserve key under the doormat although the doormat was never seen before or after.

Captions misspell Potty's name to be "Polly."

In the music video for Underwater Sun, SpongeBob quite see a single tooth, when it is obvious that he always carries two.

When Pearl jumped on SpongeBob in the hole, Pearl would had also fallen in if Spongebob wasn't strong to hold her. Since SpongeBob isn't strong enough, Pearl would had fallen in with Spongebob.

After SpongeBob is pushed out of the hole he dug, it disappears.

In Indonesia, there are a lot of speech errors.

Scooter says, "Who came first, can go with Pearl (Krabs). You can go with Pearl!", instead "Who came first, oyster or pearl? You take the side of pearl."